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EU Parliament Chief Pushes UK on Citizens' Rights
May 30, 2017
The Guardian reports that European Parliament President Antonio Tajani insisted in a recent meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May that the UK must permit citizens of other EU member states living in the UK the same rights after Brexit, signaling the possibility that the Court of Justice of the EU could maintain jurisdiction over people based in British territory.
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Academic: Founders Intended ECHR as "Living Instrument"
May 26, 2017
In a recent review of a book on the founding of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Associate Professor Ed Bates of the University of Leicester indicates that countries that have signed up to the ECHR have agreed to be bound by a "living instrument" in which supranational human rights judges might discover new meanings over time.
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ECtHR: Russia Violated Rights in 2004 School Siege
May 26, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the government of Russia violated the human rights of the hundreds of hostages killed in its siege of a school in Beslan in 2004 and ordered Russia to pay three million euros to the families of the victims.
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London Bankers Seek UK-EU Regulation Monitor
May 26, 2017
The City of London Corporation’s International Regulatory Strategy Group has called for the British government to negotiate a deal on maintaining "equivalence" between EU and UK financial regulations to permit UK banks to retain access to the EU market, including by creating a UK-EU "committee or forum" that monitors regulatory changes.
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NGO: UK Parties Must Commit to ECtHR
May 25, 2017
Human Rights Watch recently published an article calling on all UK political parties to pledge in their manifestos to keeping the country within the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
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